Lea

“Words make things real in a way that even memories can’t, so you stop there.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“Fear and work weren't all bad, as companions went. They were both better than loneliness, and the deeper fears, the worse ones that I knew would come true: that I wouldn't see my mother and father for ten years, that I'd never live again in my own home, never run wild in the woods again, that whatever strange alchemy acted on the Dragon's girls would soon begin to take hold of me, and make me into someone I wouldn't recognize at the end of it.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything